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EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces after threats of invasion by Italy
… By early May Emperor Selassie evacuated the capital city of Addis Ababa. On May 7th, Italy officially annexed …
PlaceLibya
… of the House of Representatives based in the eastern city of Tobruk; and Khaled Mishri, the elected head of the …
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi …
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… looked to models in the Third World to find a solution to apartheid in South Africa. He was particularly inspired by … Africanist solution, a letter was…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… Such a massive boycott could be a blow from which the apartheid regime may never recover. Let August the 28th be … for the destiny of their country. The…
EventMinster of Justice, Pelser defends the banning orders on eight leaders of SASO
… independence and a robust argument for dismantling the Apartheid dispensation. These goals were contrary to the objectives of the Apartheid state that sought…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… ban by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its apartheid policy. At this time, the South African team was … Interim Olympic Flag of South Africa…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… R25 million. A week earlier, during the conference, " Apartheid and Southern Africa: The West European response", … Conference (SADCC), claimed that South…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the … and continued to propagate it in it…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
… police today launched a campaign to fight a spate of urban bombs. There have been about a dozen bomb blasts in …
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… in the art community that an artistic response to social issues was overdue. The 1971 exhibition marked the first …
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… the San, Khoikhoi and the early African farmers over issues such as cattle drinking too much water or the farmers …
Address at the Commonwealth Business Forum, Johannesburg 9 November 1999
… countries of the North, as we grapple with such critical issues as our international debt burden, a more equitable … possibility exists for us to make…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… the organisation concerned... In the process all relevant issues were fully canvassed in argument. The Court delivered … whether the Constitutional Assembly…
Address at the Welcome Ceremony of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 25 August 2002
… For decades, you fought side by side with us to defeat the apartheid crime against humanity, which stood out as a … you, the peoples of the world took a…
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
… to attract investments, to deal with distortions of the apartheid era, and to work with communities in a partnership … and murder associated with robbery…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… and economic systems to address the inequalities of apartheid and create a genuine democratic South Africa.” But … the ANC operated on the moral high ground…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… supporters. 1974-75 - He supported local groups opposed to apartheid and spoke from their platforms. 1971 - He supported … to conscientise the people against…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… The man who was arrested alongside late anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, took centre stage at … memories of the torture he endured in the hands…
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… police and their military cannot subdue 12 million people. Apartheid received its greatest condemnation on 21 March last … world. The matter was raised in…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… policy on sport. Previous to this, in keeping with pre-apartheid segregation, leagues had been divided according to … unmoved by the growing international…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… Campaign, a non-violent, national, anti- pass protest, the apartheid government summoned him to Pretoria. Here he was … Click here for a list of people who…
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… his life. Born in 1945, he grew up under the oppression of apartheid, facing injustice on a daily basis. He was … South African children of all races and…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… rather controversial transition from Colonialism and Apartheid to Democracy. The site served as a Prison and … “Native Prison”, and the Women’s Prison…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… , which was launched to wage an armed struggle against the apartheid government. Prior to its formation, the ANC had largely approached the fight against…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… Baptista Montini, the Cardinal of Milan. During the Apartheid era the Regina Mundi Church opened its doors to Anti-Apartheid groups and provided shelter to…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… streets in protest. There they were joined by many black city workers, so that their protest became a mass multiracial … to protect me to some extent from…
PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
… READING) Located to the north-west of Namibia's capital city; Windhoek on the C39 road west of Outjo . Khorixas is a … located 430 kilometres (267 miles)…
PlaceComrades Marathon, Durban-Pietermaritzburg
… 15 000 to 20 000. When the start is from Pietermaritzburg City Hall, the athletes then run along Chief Albert Luthuli … race fever." When the start is from…
PlaceUmhlanga, Durban
… have a unique ambience. The new addition of the City Centre on the Ridge with its large Gateway Shopping … Suburb in KwaZulu-Natal (a 20-minute drive from…